In my profile, I have chosen Al as my name and that is the name that appears when I post by going to the community forums; however, if I post via Outlook Express my full name shows up as the name of the person posting. How can I change this? Thank you. -- Al

Gary, I am probably going to buy this suite with the full deluxe version for $12.45. Would I be allowed to put this software on both 98SE and XPPRO of my dual-boot or do I need to buy two seperate versions? Thanks in advance for all of your help and advice. You are certainly setting me on the...

Hello When i start up Win98 SE i get the msg "invalid system disk" I put in the win98 cd then hit a key Takes me to a choice boot from hard drive or from cdrom Have recently reinstalled Thanks Calum

I wrote this hoping to send it to Microsoft but couldn't figure out where or how to do so.If I come off a bit rough it's directed at Microsoft. I do hope someone can give me some help. I have a question or two using the 98SE-to-XP upgrade advisor. I do not believe it's very helpful. I decided to...

I started to install the software for a scanner and realized I wouldn't have enough time to finish so I canceled with the plan to do it at a later date. Ever since I get the following error message at boot up. Two errors actually, and after I click OK to get by them win98se starts and I get...

Partition magic can resize without deleting the partition. Joe -- FireAm94 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Going Round and Round with Ebay Tech support on this product, Turbo Lister, a product developed by Ebay for use to list mutliple ebay listings. I believe it's based on ACCESS... Crashes after listing 2-6 items. Usually get an invalid page fault message - in module UER32.DLL, or DATAOBJ.DLL...

my friend has just bought a 2nd hand computer whcih has W98 as the OS. WHen starting it gets over the windonws 98 window then ask for a password which he never set then says that a DDL file is missing which you hit the enter key to make this disappear the whole system locks up. If there any way of...

Desktop: My computer; System folders: View: Large Icons, Small Icons, List, and Details all good. Local Disks: Large Small Icons and List good but blank for Details. Is there any parameters that can be used to set it back. Thank you.

Hello to all, My oh my, I think I am loving all of these problems because the learning process is invaluable; and here is another one. First, I must tell you this has to do with a friends father who is using XP and I already know I am in the wrong group, so if any answer this I know it is out of...

When I start my computer it searches for a file called poproxy.exe. I believe this is a file related to a deleted program. How do I change the start up so it is not looking for this file or other suggestions. Thanks Nathan

If you are surfing via MSN how can you refresh a page. IE has a refresh option but I do not see anything similar on MSN. -- Al

Hi What's the difference between "Size" and "size on disk"? When I r-click on a file and select "Properties", I see 2 parameters in its properties. For example Size: 1.13 MB Size on disk: 1.34 MB What's the difference between these 2 sizes? Does a file have...

I recently noticed that my sort order in certain places has changed. The two places I have seen it are the Start Menu and my Favorites menu in IE. I have two items in both: TV Listings TV Listings Search Up until recently that's the order they appeared in these menus. Now they show up as:

• Windows 98 Startup disk. • Windows 98 CD-ROM. I bought my computer so long ago and have never had any problems that I seemed to have misplaced these things. Well, now I'm having problems and would like to do a system recovery. Is there anywhere were I can download these things off the...

I've noticed this behavior on a couple of systems recently. If you delete a file or renname a file Windows Explorer hangs for about 30 seconds and then comes back to life and acts normal. Sometimes if deleting say five files one will remain while it is frozen and then disappear when explorer...

hi all, i have this problem i am trying to fix for a friend. it is a windows 98 se machine, which was upgraded by a computer shop and the hdd was just taken from the old pc and fitted to the new. anyway, it had been playing up and not shutting down, and they had just been turning it off as it would...

Why does this board appear in Outlook Express subscriptions but not in these forums via online address http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?GSSNB=1 -- Al

Every time I either turn my computer "on" or reboot the system, It pops up a window "Enter Network Password" right before it finish this process. I don't have a network installed in my system. I have to click on the CANCEL option for this window to continue. My system uses Windows 98. I just want...

Hello, I knew someone who had similar to you, but I dont relate to him anymore. The only software I can recommend is a felt-tipped-pen after you have burned them, maybe others here can assist further. (btw, are you using windows98?) regards Jane